The Doctor Spoke and We Listened

Maintaining excellent health can be a difficult task. Fortunately, we have some expert tips that will help you. Let’s look at five amazing health tips that your doctor wishes you knew.

5. Focus On Getting Sleep

Most of us lead busy lives, with demanding schedules. Whenever we sleep, we give our body time to decompress, relax, and reset in preparation for the next day. Unfortunately, only about one third of American adults get an adequate amount of sleep on a nightly basis. Most people don’t realize it, but sleeping enhances a wide variety of functions. Here are just some:

Getting adequate sleep can help you improve your eating habits.

Getting more sleep will allow you to have more creative thoughts.

Good sleeping patterns provide you with lots of energy for the day ahead.

Sleeping can even improve your mental health.

So let’s review. You can lose weight, think more clearly, be more energetic, improve your mental health, and much more just by getting better sleep? That’s correct! That’s why it’s important that you sleep well on a nightly basis.

4. Preventative Care Is A Must

One of the main reasons for serious health issues is that individuals don’t seek care whenever they first feel something “off.” Nearly all illnesses, diseases, and other ailments take time to rear their ugly heads. If you can see your primary care specialist regularly, it is much more likely that harmful conditions may be prevented. Here are some of the most common tactics that preventative care specialists will use to nip ailments at the bud.

Doctors will use screenings to check for early signs of cancer, diabetes, depression and more.

Early prevention can save lives. One such example is cancer. This illness claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of people annually. However, with preventative measures, cancer could be detected much earlier, greatly reducing the risk of death.

Don’t become just another statistic! If you haven’t already, seek out a preventative care specialist as soon as possible.

3. Be Wary Of Detox Plans

We’re certain you have heard it, the infomercials or online sites looking to sell a detox plan that they claim will greatly improve your health. While cleansing your body of harmful toxins is not a bad thing, most of these diets don’t do much good. In fact, these diets can be potentially harmful to your health. They often require you to fast or severely cut down on calorie intake. This can lead to headaches, dizziness, feeling weak and more.

Some may counter by asking, “But don’t my liver and kidneys need to be rid of all harmful toxins?” What you should realize is that both of these intestines are excellent at getting rid of harmful toxins from your body.

Rather than suffering the potentially harmful side-effects of detox diets, look to improve your eating habits. The best way to improve your liver and kidney health is by cutting down on processed foods and increasing your fruit and vegetable intake.

Remember, just because these diets claim to cleanse your intestines does not make them healthy or effective at doing so.

2. Stay Away From Processed Food

The leading cause of most health problems today stems from unhealthy eating habits. Primarily, consuming processed food while not eating enough fruits and vegetables. Just a few of the most common unhealthy options include:

Fast Food

Processed Meat

Most Canned Foods

Cereals

Unfortunately, there are a variety of health risks that can arise from these eating habits. This includes heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and much more.

We know that it’s difficult, but try to gradually reduce the amount of processed food that you consume.

1. Stay Active Every Day

Believe it or not, the health tip that people struggle with the most is exercise. I have seen it too many times; someone will develop a plan to exercise everyday, but gradually they make excuses and stop altogether. With the many health benefits of exercise, it is crucial that you develop and maintain a plan to stay active. Here are some tips.